TIIH OANBIHY REPORTER. . * r* ♦ r* ! -v *5. .. i 1 1 1 ' u ' VOLUME 11. 6" 3 *"• I » ? Tl|E RIPOItTER PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY _! i ■■ OdtOftft. payable -ift wlvttltc, - %t 0 BU'*aMliß,' • ttO 4^o OnQ.PqMr* line* or 1f *») I time, $1 Of) For eacliftdgilioaal - 60 Contracts for lonedr tihic or mbte space (Sin brnrcamrproWM'tffift to tW abore rates. - Transient aAterUiera wilt be expected, to remit according to these rates at the time thejr send their fayora. , ■ fiw-nr Dotiteea wilTbe charged 50 per cent. hicOar tJMm above rtres. CardawiU be imertod *1 Teu Dol -1 art per an'num. ~E' , . ..!-! ,i Wwrra; ' Jon? A. JakboK, Gfi hi q. ifr-ScnrnWitNl . UIIITH K- BIISOIIMAN, wholesale dealers in ItAW, CAPS,-WJRB, STHAW GOODS AND , ■ j LADIBV HATS. . W- FaHtmese Btra»t, Baltimore, M 4 H. M. LANIER, 00 f -with 00 JL P. BAYIiEY Se CO., . t. importers W - ' 7 CHINA, GLASS AND QUEENS- WAttE, LAMPS, ftc. 37 Turnover street, Baltimore, Md. ETm! WILSON, of H. 0., WITU , R, W. POWERS & CO., DRUGGISTS, and fceulcrs in Taints, Oils. Dyes, Varnishes, French "Window Olaa j , ftc., Jfo. 1805 Main St., Richmond, Va. Praprirlori Aromatic Perulim Hitter* J; Com pound Syrup Tolu and Wild Cherry. ~ JCTW. RANDOLPH Jt ENGLISH, BOOKSELLERS, r-TATIONBftS, AND BLANK-BOOK MA.NITFACTEUBRB. 1318 Main street, Richmond. A Large Stock of LA W UOOKS alwayi on nol-6m hand. Art,. BLLBTT, TA. JUDSON WATKINS, OLAY BMWRY, -STEPHEN B. UUOHKB ft. L. KLUSTT L €O., importers and jobbers of DRY COODS AND NOTIONS. Nos. 10, 12 and 14 Twelfth street (between Main and Carv) , nl-l*,' MCJIMUMJ, VA. BlltTW*!* & WIIiTEUII.L, WHOLESALE CLOTH IEKS, CLOTHS, CAS SIA BItRS, ETC. 31 and 323 Baltimore streets, Baltimore, Md. _»Hy O. F. DAY, Al-BKRT JONES DAY & JONES, Manufacturers ot BADDLERV, HARNESS, COLLARS, TRtTNKS, #c. So. 336 W. Baltimore street, Baltimore, Md. nol-ly W. A. TUCKER,'' H. C. SMITH 8. B. SPRAUINS TUCKER, 'SMITH & CO., Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in BOOTS: SHOES; HATS AND CAPS. JSO Baltimore street, Baltimore, Md. 01-4y. i! ' JNO. W. HOLLAND J#Uh , ,i T. It. BftVAN L CO., Mao ufacturers ol FRENCH and AMERICAN CAN DIBS,In every variety, aud ( wholesale dealers in FRUITS. NUTS, CANNED GOODS, CI GARS, .j-e. 339jU>d 341 Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Md. from Merchantssolicited, "ft C W. THORN, J B. ETCHIBON. C. W. THORN & CO., . r-- wholesale dealers io CAPST STRAW -GOODS, AND UDIBSr-TRIMMKD HATS. 1800 Maip Street, Richmond, Ta. ,I|l OHA4-.T. BALSLBY, iii, . D'i ' * i,h CHAS. P. STOKES k CO., Muii£u:t«neu aud wlalqsal* dealers in all kinds of WILLOW AND TINWARE, woa tail Richmond, Va l)rooD||ißttd«el.aad Tinware bctoriet, Harris town, Va. D. U. «TBVENSON, MORft'tP llbWm,' 1 I BLINOLUTF STEPSON, ROGERS & CO,, a ~, .BOOTS AND SHOES, 224 W. Baltimore Str«et,lu«ar Howard,) luT,&• Balthnor?; Md. ■•J. U R ri„MST,' , V:3O i .a UEJiRV SONDiEBOIUI A CO., WHOLESALE CUJTHIKRS. SfO Haiover Street, (between German and • si 'pjitiia Lotnbard Streets,) mdl v r JUAimOMi MV. a. SONNFUOUU, B PUMLINE.. •*'' '■ ' Ji ■»: fi KING KM. StGand 328 Baltimore street; N. H. cor ,*iiV T. W. JOHNSON, H. M. SUTTON, J. B R. CRABBE, " Q. J. JOHNSON. * _____ V> ißTAßlililtD itai. b»'> RBI) SOLB LBkTHBR. LAMA BEE & SONS, . .11: '. laiporters and Dealers in BOOK FINDINGS AND FRENCH CALF « Manufe'tilrers of RFAJF-TANNED HARNESS AND UPPEB 01 .*» ' LEATHER. Mo. N South Calvert street; Baltimore, Md. Oonaigaments of Rougb Leather solicited. DAN BURY, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1877. , I ■ • : i ,1 ■ r I ' 3*l iAa.f, t ' { A PREACHER'S ADVENTURE. A TRUE STORY BY AN OLD MISSISSIPIAN About the yeax there resided in the lower part oS Mftrioo eouoty, terri tory Which is now eaimeed in the om t>4)f Pearl, a phjtra Baptist preacher, whom we will call for odovenience the R«v. Mr Ballard (though that was Dot bit. Dome). He had ohaigeof the prim itive log-cabin church io the neigbbor kbttd, where he preaohed every fourth Saturday and Sunday M a small audi epoe of earnest oonotuoioaDta. He waa greatly beloved by all the people of the neighborhood, and hie atteraooea from the pulpit were'received by them with out question as the orthodox exposition ot Bible requirements. ; Almost without exeoptiaa.the commu nity consisted of small farmers and stock risers—hardy pioneefs—who produced annually for salo from one to four or five bales of ootton and a few head of stock for each farmer. In those days oottoD was conveyed to Covington io ox wagons and tho stock driven to the same place, and thence usually transported to New Orleans in schooners. When tbe crop for tbe year mentioned I was harvested the oongregation at chnreli one Saturday, after listening to a three J hours' sermon and a fervid prayer of one hour's duration from Pars n Ballard, or gan iacd a sort of pioneer grange aeat ir.g in the church, to consider the mode aud manner of the disposition of their crops and the purchase of supplies. It was argued with an intuitive grange acuteness that if eaoh man depended on himself, and carried his one or two bales to Covington, sold it and bought bis sup plies there, be would not realise as much as be would if all wouli club together and send a man along with the cotton to New Orleans, sell it in bulk and buy groceries in bulk for the entire commu niti. This plan was therefore agreed to, and Brother Ballard unanimously elected to carry it out. Accordingly, tbe neighbors got to gether their wagons and teams, and by a united effort succeeded in equipping a train sufficient to transport 130 bale* of cotton. Fifteen miles a day is the average speed of tbe ox wagon, and it generally took from six to ten days to oomplete the rouod trip. Oo the occasion referred to,: forty seven years ago, our brave pioneers reached Covington without any serious toouhle. Parson Ballard was there for tified with his long list calling for BO lug/ph flour, sugar, coffee and molasses for each bead of tbe family and a spec ial momoranda demanding a sack of squirrel shot for Brother A., a dozen fish hooks for Brother 8., and a caa of powder for Brother 0., two pairs of stuped stockings for Sister D., ten yards of white muslin for Sister E , etc. He took charge of the cotton, chartered a small schooner, loaded it and boarded it and bade his flock aa affectionate good bye for a abort time. When be reached the city ba pat up at tbe City Hotel, famous then as notr, as the papula* retort of Mitsiasippiana, and there casually fell in with p gentle man dressed in blue jeans hemespun, wearing a bread brimmed Panama bat, and lookiog the very embodied type of a thrifty, well to do farmer, also stop ping at the same house. We will oall this party Stokes, though that may not | have been his name. Stokes seemed to be drawn to our parson by his rural garb and inbocent look. By the merest aooi dent, of course, and a sort of natural congeniality, be cultivated the parson, ate with him, talked ootton and horses and baptism with him, and won npon him. He introduced himself as a farmer from Arkansas, who bad oom? down to sell his crop of 300 bales. "That's exaotly my business here," replied the Kev. Mr Ballard, "but as this is my first trip to the oity, I am a little green about, the business." ''"Then I can be of some servioe to you," said Mr. Stokes. "I have been in tbe habit of poming down every winter, and I've learned the ropes, as the boys ssy. To morrow I will introduce you to one of my broken, who will dispose of your eotton to tbe best advantage." Accord iagly, neat morning Mr. Stakes coaduet>ed Parson Bsllard to a commis sion firm, who took ohsrge of the cotton, hsd it weighed, sampled and sold. When Mr. Ballard oalled late in the evening, he received a check for round proceeds of the eottan sale. She next morning his programme waa4o lay out this sum, or sp,, much of it a» wis neoeaaary, to flljtthp hiUf of hia.; expect ant aad confiding neighbors. '•'* After supper, Mr. fkokes Resented Parson Bollard and under tke soothing influeneji of the grateful LU*an»; |»« talked fluently of stock raiding and morality. 0 • -"What do you say; Mi. Mallard," ob served Mr. Stokes, quietly, after some olinebing remarks about ihe absurdities Of Armenianism, "what do you say to a walk asooad the town f". ( !"i "I think 'I would enjoy it," said P..* son Ballard; "everything is «ew and strange here to me, and I,would like to sea tbe sights." "Very well, then, we Will start with out delay." The pair moved out of the City Ho tel, strolled »loeg the Jevec, went up one street and down another, until Parson Ballard had completely lost his oompass He knew not where he was nor how he got there. Finally he said to his com panion : "liet us go ba6k to the hotel now ; I think we have seen enough for one night." "All right," said Stokes, "but let's stftp ia here and see what sort of a place tbisiis." "Certainly," responded Brother Bal lard. "There can DO no harm io that." "We are tired and thirsty," suggested Mr. Stokes. "Let's get one of those fellows to fix us up a nice julep. I think it would do o« good " "I an thirsty," returned the other, "and though it is unseemly for a preacher of the Gospel t* drink at a counter, yet I am a long way from home and wretch edly dry. I will join you in a julep." From this point we continue the story in Parson Ballard's own words. "This drink," said he, "exhilarated me wonderfully, and I felt more Ukq, 'seeing the elephant' than ever. After we had looked on a while, observing the flying glasses, and the coming iu and going out) of customers, Mr. Stokes re marked : '* 'Suppose we go in here' and seo wbat tbey are doing behind the screen.' "Hare was a large rouod table, resem bling a vast mariner's compass, with ol] the points distinctly marked. Men were throwing a little round ball on it, and if it stopped where they put down s piece of money, the wheel man gave them two, three, ten or a hundred times the sam deposited. If it didtf't stop there the engineer took the deposits himself. I observed it, didn't stop there often. At another table there was quite a crpwd of men handling smooth, round pieces of ivory about the size and shape of a sil ver dollar, whiob they Allied 'obips'— some blue, some white and some red. A fellow was dealing off carda out of a little tin box, two or three at a time, and every tirnd he dealt he took off some of the 'chips' at one place, *t>ti at another plaee he would put down other 'thips.' I saw one msn with a whole pile of blue chips, and every one of them was Mid to be worth $lO in gold. I became some what bewildered and exeited. Stokes aaked ma to take another julep. I did so; and we returned. Was I beside myself? I wondered. I felt a moment-' ary sensation of recklessness creep over me. Stokea auggfslsd that we try our luck just one time. We tried and won- A Second trial, and a second winning. And so ofr for several turnings. By and by, tbe tide turned, and I lost —kept on loeiog until I bad nothing left. Then Stokes drew me feaek to the counter, and We took another drink. By tbis time I must have been booty. Stokes suggested that tbe men behind the screen who handled tbe chips and bank bills Were a set of swindlers—that be had caught the sleight of the thing and knew how to win, and if I woald go back and try it agaie he felt certain that I would re- 1 oover all my loaaes. r " 'Bat I haven't gut any more tuotiAyf I replied. * 'Yoa have got « cheek ftr $5,000;' replied Stokes, 'and I Win get it cashed here.' " 'My God,' I acclaimed, 'I can't ate that cheek. It rapreeeats tbe year's wosk of some thirty or forty of my (rust ing parishioners. No, no, ae-! That is impossible.' W4 I doa't propose for yoa to use the oheok—only a fern dollars ef It to re oover back what yon have lost. Then you can make it good, ifiß' I can tell you a thing or two which I believe will Qx it so that yoa will b« almost certain to win.' ! ' "It Is needless to prolong the tale.— At the moment Satan triumphed. I yielded Stokes went with me to the man who held the money bags of the institation, and he counted out to me $5,000 in current bank bills, and I in dorsed the check. "'Now,'says Stokes, 'you play as I tell you, and you will win.' "We returned to tbe table, and began the oampaign, at fiict winning and then losing. In two or three hours the"last cent wss gone I I looked at Stokes. Stokes looked at me. For the first time it begsn to dawn upon my befuddled In telleet that I was the victim of a gamb ling house pimp. Did I rush upon him and wreak vengeance for my wreck ? Ob, no. T was too utterly crushed for that. All at a sudden tbe monstrous nature of my crime flashed upon me with overwhelming and blasting force I thought of the simple and oonflding members of my flook whose sweet trust I had so bssely betrayed. I thought of the deep disappointment and poignant suffering which my would entail upon them. I thought of my devoted wife ai.d two little children. I thought of the great and good Saviour whom I had betrayed and whose servant I pro fessed to be. In the twinkling of ati eye my great eritne, io all its horrid de formity and with tbe terrors whioh It would entail, was unfolded to my dis tracted vision. I had been false to my self, to my people, to my own house bold, to my God ! Oh, then it waß that I prayed to Him with an intensity of fervor never felt by me before nor since I prayed that He would send His light ning down and strike me dead in my tracks, or in the boundlessness of His mercy He would point a way out of this dwp damnation. '•Well, Stokes pulled mc out of this 'hell'—a strictly correct name for all such places. I moved along with him listlessly. If, up to this time I hsd been a mere tool iu his hands, now I was a sitffple child, caring not where he csf ried me nor what he did with me. By and by we camo to another saloon, and Stokes invited me to drink once more. I complied, of course. While standing at the counter we heard a rattling of 'chips' in the rear. Stokes asked me if I bad any money. I felt in aiy brooches pocket and fouud a Mexiean silver dollar. " 'That can do you no good,' says Stokes; 'suppose we go is here and make one more trial with it.' " 'All right,' I said, feeling utterly desperata, and taking in the full foroe of Stokes's suggestion that that poor isolated dollar would do me no good. "We went in, and I laid down tbe silrer dollar. It won. I doubled it and won again. I increased the bet and it won a third time. I kept on increas ing and winniug. Every play was a success. I filled my coat pookets and breeohes pockets with bank bills I pulled off my hat and crammed that full. At daylight I arose from the table with vest pocketa, coat pockets, breeches pockets and my bat full of bauk bills. Stokes said : 'Watt, you are in Inek.' r 'No,' I said, 'I am going to the hotel at once.' I took my hat und£r my arm and started, Stokes following me. I never turned to the right or left, but made short time for tbe bate). Arriv ing there, I went behind the eounter and said to the clerk : 'Here, count this money for me.' "'How muoh Lava you got?' asked the clerk. " 'God only knows,' I answered, and I poured my bat full of baok bills be fore him, and began to empty my pock ets one at a time. " 'Ain't you never going to stop pall ing out bank bills ?' exclaimed the clerk, laughing at my singulsr appesranoe and ludicrous excitement. '•Wait!' I said, and prooeedad with the disgorgement. After I had emptied all my pockets, the clerk oommenoftd the count. When be bad finished it, it was found that I had SIO,OOO. I then told him my adventure, and asked hia assist, aaet in the parohsse of the articled I was deputed to buy. He told me wtiere to go, and I filled every bill to tbe point of exactness. With the remaining #5,- 000 I bought a stock of goods, suoh aa were needed in my country, arrived home im timt, turned over everything to the perfect satisfaction of my friends, and built a small store-house aud started k mercantilfe bnsitießs which hit* proved to be the foundation of my fortune." Mr. Ballard told me this story about twenty years after its occurrence,and renark«d at the conclusion of it: . *:' Yog! ate tbe only man 1 have ever brattfefd a syllable to eonceraing this fearful episode. It is literally and strict ly true. I attribute my saooess at tbe second gsmiug-bouse solely and entirely to the effiusay ot the earnest sppeal I made at that time to my Maker. I have never touched a gauie of. chance ner a drop of liquor before nor sines, and, as God is my shield, I never will." —•" ♦ * . •. j, p" , f . Labor, Capital and Fate. Tbe ssiling, a few days ago, of a num ber of skilled carpenters and joiners from this country for England, for the purpose of finding steady employment there, tells a tale of its own. We have no desire to approach the subjeot senti mentally, but certainly the common way of treating suoh an event as this, sadly significant as it is, is bratally flippant, even among presumably intelligent men. The eotnmoo way of diepesing of the subject is as follows ; Tbe laws of sup ply and demand regulate most things in the business world; if people do not ehoose to Work for certain stipulated sums let them refuse and go elsewhere. This is sound doctrine so far as it goes, but it leaves oat the root of the matter whiah will always stubbornly in sist upon staving tbe pbiloeopher in the face. All capable and industrious men will fee), and are justified in feeling, that they have a right to receive a fair compensation for their labor, and it is not enough to tell them that the present relations between labor and eapital pre clude their receiving that compensation. Tbe fanlt seems to be thrown further back, upon fate or Providence—call it wb«t yon will'—and all tho practicality in the world will not prevent the unsuc cessf'ul laborer from feeling that he has been wrpaged.—A- F. T hyrapi. Pay as You Go Of all the maxims to be met with in the English Isnguage, few are more worthy ftf being remembered and prac tioed than "Pay as ycu go.** If tbe maxim be always kept ia mind, aad obeyed through the various transactions of life, it will prove a source of wealth to the person who has-it as his 00m m*ad. He will never have to dodge into a by street, or run up blind alleys t» avoid meeting his angry oreditort.—- His merchant and.blaoksmith will bring hiai no half-yearly bills, swollen in items and acoounts far beyond his highest cal culations. This maxim not only applies to the various business transactions, but is equally applicable to our farms and homes The man who pays as he goes it most always conteoted and happy to know that all he posse see about his farm and home is free from mortgage and debt. The train of evils that deb occasions ean never be folly estimated or described. How many discontented per sons we see in daily life, who are in debt beyond tbeir means, by not observing the maxim : "Pay as you go" The poverty and dishonesty that distresses our laod to day, has principally grown out of disobeying tbis iatpCttaot and useful maxim. The thousands that are to-day 4a want ef the necessary comforts of life, and the many dishonest means that are cmploytd to get money, attest the truthfulness of the abevo named maxim. A disobedienoe of tMa maxim causes not only poverty and dishonesty, but it is of unequal power in prodnelng restless nights and miserable days. The man who is seeking after happiness and wealth will do well to oarry io hie heart and practice this healthful maxim: "Pay as yoa go." SELF-GOVERNMENT is good, if those who exercise it know how to practice it. It is supreme folly to expect soy num ber of persons to govern eaoh other if the have never learned to govern thcm> selves. Patting amaa ia a 6 tat e house to make laws, before be bss been placed in a schoolhouse to learn how to study, and before he knows the scienoe of gov ernmeot, is as much foolishness, as ft woqld be te permit a man to navigate a vessel, who kn>ws nothing about navi gation. The right of universal suffrage is based on the duy Of universal educa tion. DishoneM and uneducated persons should never be •permitted to make iur laws. "NUMBER 18.. ' 1 A Dare-Devil Gendralf 7^ ■ M niOS La Dare-devil Skobeleff, who biasoee Mi bad;, but acoepte defeat M the "will rf God," is tbe most popular df the lioa sian heroes. Hit force ru oa the •>- treme left of Bcbakofiski'e division is the first disastrous attack upon Plevna. When his hattallion of in&ntry HI under tbe first fire of tbe twelve g«oe defending that portion of tbe Turkish line, tbe soldiers shouted, "Charge!" and began rushing forward. Skobeleff ordered a halt; lines were formed with tbe precision of a dress-parade, and the command was given, "Garry arms 1" "Present aroas !" When the line wtß at a "Present," the shells began to fall among them. Skobeleff then asked them it' they did not think "they pre sented a ridiculous speotacle in that po sition under fire." They replied that they did. Then he assured them that he would keep them. there until the nett day unless tbey promised to keep order in the ranks await the oommand of their officers, instead of yelling and charging on their own aoconnt. The men assured bim that they saw the force of his remark. They were then led for ward, and behaved splendidly dnring tbe whole action. This brings to mind the iron-handed discipline of Catherine's terrible Marshals, who opened their bat teries upon their own soldiers when tbey were wavering in tbe obarge, and drum med their Generals out of oamp whoa they ventured to suggest a retreat. Official Responsibility. The Raleigh Newt is exposing some : irregularities among officials of Raleigh. I It seems that some of tbe eity officials are in arrears for various amounts da* from their respective offices for tbe last fiscal year. It will not do to say that the bonds of tbese gentlemen are good and will hold the oity harmless. The custom in vogue among some public offi cers .for UM ig publie funds for private uses cannot be justified under any eir» cumstanoee. It is bad faith and leads to trouble and demoralization, even in oases where the publio is fortified against loes by responsible securities. It always inures to the damage of the party re sponsible for tbe election of saidoffiolals, aad no party having respect for its obar aeter and oicupying high moral ground, can excuse such conduct in the men it has promoted to office. And no matter to what party a delinquent office holder belongs, if be shodld pervert the pubHA funds from their proper channel, it is the duty of the publio press to speak oat oondemnatioo, and give it the eensntfit deserves. Our Btate has been parsed enough with malfeasance and defalcations under Hadioal rule in the past, and no "irreg ularities," no short comings, no matter what the intention or what the result— oan be tolerated in any manner by tbe Demooratio party. Let every office holder be held to a strict accountability for tba faithful performance of his duty in every particular. Hy suoh a course alone can our party maintain its obliga tions to the country and meet the expec tations of the people.— Wilton Advance. A Royal Lesson on HujMuaity. Queen Caroline, wife of George 11, being informed that her eldest daughter, afterward Princess of Orange, was ac customed, at going to rest, to employ one of the ladies of the court to read aloud to her till she should drop asleep, and that on one occasion the princess suffered the lady, who was indisposed, to oon» tioue her fatiguing duty until she fell down in a swoon, determined to incul cate on her daughter a lesson of human ity. The next night the queen, when in bed, sent for the prinoess and com manded ber to read aloud. After some time her royal highness began to be tired of standing, and paus ed in hopes of receiving an order to be seated. "Proceed," said her Majesty. In a short time a second paiißc soemed to plead lor rest. "Read on," said ths Queen, again. The princess again stop, ped, and again received an order to pro ceed, till at length, faint and breathless, Bbe wfcs forced to complain. "Then," skid this Excellent parent, "if you thus feel the pain of this exercise far one ! evening Only, What must your attendants ! Ifeel who do 1t every night f Hence, learn, my daughter, never to indulge yoni 1 own ease, while you suffer your at tendants to endure unnecessary fatigue."

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